Football 1962 Archive

Overall: 2-6
MIAC: 2-5 (T-6th place)

Season Review

There was only one game in the 1962 season in which Gustavus did not at least produce a healthy threat, and give rival coaches a few premature grey hairs. Perhaps it is a trivial excuse, but with just a few more breaks, four quarters instead of three, this could have been a different season. Hope alone, however, does not produce a fourth quarter. A future of hard work and determination very likely may. Any ball club so young, that can produce three quarters of good ball can certainly keep alive the expectation of better things to come.

These four emotions, calculation, anticipation, frustration, and exultation, characterize, with remarkable accuracy, the effect of the Gustavus football season. Trying desperately to emerge from the throes of a general athletic decline, the Gustavus football squad, showed periodic determination, enthusiasm, and even sparks of talent. It was a young squad, however; and the course of the season belied its age.

How many times during the year were the hopes for a victory aroused in the first half only to be shattered in the second. Coach Don Roberts ball club has shown the student body effective potential which needs only the time to mature and to gain experience before it can blossom into a winning team, bringing to Gustavus once more the laurals that only a short time ago seemed impregnable. The bright spots we did have, the outstanding individual performance, the occasional combined team efforts for victory, particulary the Homecoming game, which few who saw will ever forget, were applauded vigorously by the fans, and the dark days were generously acknowledged to be what they were, the occasional failings of a young club which gave every indication of being desirous of proving itself. Coach Roberts has a winning tradition to uphold. If the finer moments of this season are any indication for the future, he will, through vigorous and intelligent coaching, vindicate himself admirably.